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23rd OCTOBER 2015 TODAY IN HISTORY - DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

Today in Indian History
Events for October 23

23-October-1797	John J Rochussen, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1845-51), was born.
23-October-1824	Rani Chainema fight with the Britishers at a 'killa' (fort) in Kitur.
23-October-1883	Mirza Mohammad Ismile, Diwan of Mysore and Prime Minister of Hydrabad and Jaipur, was born.
23-October-1883	Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat.
23-October-1898	Khandubhai K. Desai, politician and social reformer, was born at Bulsar in Gujarat.
23-October-1919	Lord Curzon, ex-Viceroy of India, takes over as Former Secretary from Tory leader Arthur Balfour in London.
23-October-1934	Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.
23-October-1943	Netaji Subash Chandra Bose inaugurated the Rani Jhansi Brigade in Azad Hind Army and announced war against the British Empire.
23-October-1959	Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border.
23-October-1970	If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour
23-October-1973	Sambamurthy Pichhu, famous musician of Madras, died.
23-October-1985	Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.
23-October-1990	Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government.
23-October-1992	The dissident ministers of Bangarappa government in Karnataka resign.
23-October-1992	UPSC decides to introduce a new essay paper for the civil services examination.
23-October-1996	Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
23-October-1996	Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
23-October-1997	I.K. Gujral, PM, leaves for Edinburgh to attend Commonwealth Heads of Govt. Meeting.
23-October-1997	Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline upto 31st October for sandalwood smuggler Veerappan to surrender.
23-October-1999	A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst.
23-October-1999	The chargesheet in Bofors case is a legal triumph, said Mr. Advani. But Congress(I) calls it as a political vendetta.
23-October-1999	V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.